As Fleetwood Mac predicted, the landslide brought it down.

I know what you're thinking: "Bigfoot is dead? But some researcher from Texas has just sequenced his DNA." It caught me by surprise, too, but apparently Bigfoot was another casualty of the famous Mount St. Helens volcano blast back in 1980. A mud slide caused by the explosion buried part of an A-frame house near Toutle, Washington, where the property's owners later erected a "Survivors' Gift Shop" and offered tours of the home's now-below-grade first floor.

Also, they built a gigantic Bigfoot statue. That's because, according to various unspecified local "accounts," Bigfoot—the original, "real" Bigfoot—might have been buried by the mud covering the area, too. But the property owners made one key mistake when erecting their statue. As Roadside America explains:

The owners of the Survivors Gift Shop decided to honor his memory when they built their original Bigfoot statue in the mid-1980s. It was slightly smaller than the current one, and made of combustible materials, as proved by its incineration by vandals in the mid-1990s.

Never underestimate the pyromanic degeneracy of youth!

Naturally, when the owners commissioned the replacement Bigfoot statue, they did it right and had the thing made of concrete. Twenty-eight feet tall, it stands on the property today. The real estate agent's description of the property details all the wonderful things you get for your $270,000:

Property taxes are low, too, just $945 a year, and you can have the thrill of waking each morning to look into the eyes of a 28-foot concrete Bigfoot, and ponder the fate of the real Bigfoot, buried—maybe!—nearby.

Pschaw! call yourself a sciencey-site, but in your snarky haste you've overlooked the vital info this statue conveys: in a presumed close relative of H. sapiens either the males had fully retractable genitalia OR the females had only vestigial mammary glands OR the last specimen was a eunuch (a vital clue as to their demise, possibly also an insight into their system of public governance, c.f. Imperial China, Ottoman Empire). Why I sense my name in lights - JIR lights...

This isn't that far from me and, for that area of the state, is ridiculously overpriced. WTF are they thinking?

Their price may have been based on an acreage appraisal which included the vertical axis. Three-dimensional land costs are on the rise, you know. (They could ask even more if they could advertise Bigfoot on Stilts!) Two-dimensional properties are at the low end of the market - not a fair comparison.

Pschaw! call yourself a sciencey-site, but in your snarky haste you've overlooked the vital info this statue conveys: in a presumed close relative of H. sapiens either the males had fully retractable genitalia OR the females had only vestigial mammary glands OR the last specimen was a eunuch (a vital clue as to their demise, possibly also an insight into their system of public governance, c.f. Imperial China, Ottoman Empire). Why I sense my name in lights - JIR lights...

I think he's male, and straight. Here's a picture of him and "Baby", dirty dancing on their first date:

I can't figure out if there are really a lot of people that believe in BigFoot or are they just having fun with it?

The first episode of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot was filmed just a couple miles from my house.

And this past weekend, the inaugural Southeastern BigFoot Conference was held just a few miles from my house in the other direction. They even had a Cryptology expert on-hand to discuss the BigFoot's language.